Deborah Bauer presents the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation.
Historians and policy scholars offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.
John Starosta Galante explores the presence, pull, and rejection of Italian nationalism and italianità (or Italianness) in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and São Paulo during World War I.
Provides an overview of the literature of Iceland, since the country's settlement in the ninth century, including chapters on lesser-known areas such as drama, children's literature, women's literature, and North American Icelandic literature.
Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape and cultural change as related to the production and consumption of fermented products.
Presents a biography of Ruth Benedict, the renowned anthropologist, by her student, drawing on her correspondence and work with Margaret Mead, and on... Læs mere
Follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East... Læs mere
A dictionary of the Creek language of the southeastern United States. It contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place-names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma.
Indian Soldiers in World War I follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the... Læs mere
Offers a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish... Læs mere